History
Title: John Glenn and the Mercury Project
Number of sources: 6
Paper instructions:
Subject – John Glen Mercury missions.
Obtain three magazine articles pertaining to the event and site them.
Be certain to have articles from MORE than one magazine issue and more than one magazine title (meaning you should have Time and Life or Look and National Geographic). You will need three newspaper articles from the period that address your selected mission.
The primary goal is to examine how the mission was viewed at the time. What was the tone of the writer/reporter? Depending on the source you will find the tones range from incredible wonder to what a total waste of taxpayer’s money. Some will discuss the future potential. Others, you will be able to read the Cold War overtones in the reporting. But the FOCUS should not be on recapping the mission. Read into the articles – focus on the tones.
Format
• Use an essay format – you need an opening paragraph, several supporting paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
• The paper length is 1200 to 1500 words.
• The word count does not include the title page, citation page, and bibliography.
• Title page
• Provide the word count on the title page.
• Double-space the paper
• Use standard margins and 12 font Times New Roman.
• Write in the third person. Do not use “I” in your paper – such as “I feel” or “I believe”. If you are quoting and “I” is in the quote that is fine. Do not use first or second person unless it is within a quote.
• Do not use contractions – can’t, isn’t, couldn’t, etc.
• Refrain from the overuse of cliche phrases.
• For citations – Chicago Manual of Style – you MUST use this format.
• Use footnotes.
• Include a bibliography of your sources. The bibliography page is in addition to the page limit.
6 sources total. 3 from different magazines during that period and 3 from news papers from that period. Can be same paper but needs to be different article.
